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Exemptions push property levy
higher in 4 out of 10 N.J. towns
Under a state law adopted in 2010, property
tax levies arent allowed to grow more than
2 percent a year.
Some cost increases, however, are exempt
from the cap. Those exclusions include costs
for shared-service agreements, health insur-
ance, pension obligations, Length of Service
Award Programs for volunteer firefighters
and first aid organizations, capital improve-
ments, debt service and leases, recycling tax-
es and emergencies.
Statewide, the average property tax bill
grew by 1.3 percent to $7,988 in 2013. But
the combined tax levy for county, municipal
and school services grew by more than 2
percent in almost 44 percent of municipal-
ities last year. A12
Four people died late Friday into early Saturday. In Long Branch, a woman, 62, and the
girl she cared for, 11, were found dead inside a home, the cause unexplained. In Brick, a
66-year-old woman was found dead after a fire in her home. And in Lakewood, a Howell man,
50, was found dead with a gunshot wound after his minivan crashed into a tree; police are
calling it a homicide. A3
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A 66-year-old woman, Grace Merkel, died in a fire at this home on Dock Road in Brick early Saturday. Above, relatives of
Merkel wait to talk to investigators outside the wreckage of the home.
Victims of homicide, fire among four killed